| De Witte | |
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| Current region | Belgium and France |
| Place of origin | Antwerp, Belgium |
| Members | Wiktor de Witte, Adriaan de Witte, Jacob Antoon de Witte, Jean de Witte |
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The de Witte family is a Belgian noble family originating from the city of Antwerp. [1]
Originally, it is believed that they were members of the Hanseatic League. The oldest known family ancestor is Adriaan de Witte (1464–1549), who was from Buerstede near Antwerp. A 1544 portrait of him, painted by a student of Hans Holbein the Younger, is exhibited in the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede.
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The White Brigade was a Belgian resistance group founded on 23 July 1940 in Antwerp by Marcel Louette, who was nicknamed "Fidelio". The group was originally known as "De Geuzengroep" and changed its name again after the Liberation of Belgium to Witte Brigade-Fidelio as the term "white brigade" had emerged as a generic term to describe the resistance.
Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Gaston-François de Witte; see its history for attribution.
De Witte or DeWitte is Dutch and Flemish for "The White" and may refer to:
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